Full Issue:

The near-collapse of the U.S. steel industry forced the President to shift from a
“free trade” to “fair trade” position to save the U.S. steel sector. The decision
has far-reaching implications domestically and abroad.

President Bush’s decision “portends what will probably become, rather suddenly, the
most portentous, systemic shift in world-wide economic policy in thirty years....
Does the increased tariff on steel imports mean a collapse of Europe’s exports to
the U.S.A.? In and of itself, the answer is: ‘It does not constitute such a threat.’”

Economics

The Recovery is coming!, the refrain of a gaggle of financial Chicken Littles, is
based on the very real fear that the global financial system is coming down. They
are desperate to keep their failing bubble going, and to head off the only viable
alternative, the New Bretton Woods proposal of Lyndon LaRouche.

Feature

A March 5 interview with Lyndon LaRouche, conducted by Salt Lake City radio talk show
host Jack Stockwell. Those who are pumping liquidity into the economy, LaRouche said,
“were talking about the ‘recovery’—it’s like Dracula, as I call it—promising the suckers
a midnight recovery. And the suckers are buying.” But the whole system is coming down,
and hyperinflationary money-pumping only makes the collapse of physical production
that much worse.

Investigation

The New York Council on Foreign Relations, the American branch office of the British
Royal Institute for International Affairs, has issued a public call for a full-scale
war on Iraq, as a stepping-stone to imperial world government.

International

The orchestration of riots by “Clash of Civilizations” adherents, has brought to focus
the threat to India’s stability, and poses the need for the government to finally
seriously address the deepening economic and social crisis.

National

“On the subject of President William Clinton’s role in Middle East peace negotiations,
he made only two notable mistakes: ... he allowed the exclusion of the two issues
on which an actual Middle East peace depends, absolutely: the issue of economic development,
and especially, the issue of mass desalination.”